Digital Transformation

October 28, 2024

Aap.org Content Changes

• Worked on a fix for the font color on certain content type blocks when using the dark blue theme.
• Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health
  • Tested fixes and changes for the Social Media Glossary including...
    
    • Increasing the size of the social media platform icons.
    • Making the “Topic” heading editable by administrators.
    • Modifying the definition pop-up behavior to make displaying and closing the definition pop-up box more intuitive.
    • Fixing the definition pop-up display when near the edge of certain screen sizes.
  • Worked on and tested fixes for issues discovered with the glossary, including…
    • Images added into the glossary content area appear too small.
    • Missing the source/last updated content block area.
    • Definition pop-up not working as expected on touch screens in certain scenarios.

shopAAP Updates

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• Tested the following...
  • Fix for when a message stating promo code not applied mistakenly appears when the promo code is successful (happens with certain types of promo codes).
  • Membership and subscription renewal banner alerts after updating the code to use newer webservices.
• Finished the estimate for building donation at checkout.
• Created an estimate for building print PDF capability for membership proformas and the shopping cart to provide users a way to get a PDF they can get approval on prior to paying those proformas or for those shopping carts.
• Worked on changes including…
  • Updated the button design for product detail pages to emphasize which product format is selected.
  • Added the Questions box area to the cart page.
  • Started the migration of shopping cart-related calls to newer webservices to enhance performance.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched October releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
  • 2024 Pediatric Hospital Medicine Cram – Virtual
  • 2024 Best of Practical Pediatrics CME October Virtual Course
• PediaLink Migration
  • Program Director Center
    • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) and PREP SA Reports.
  • Individualized Learning Plan
    • Completed final testing of changes and fixes for the ILP Overview page, including…
      • Updated the ILP Overview page design to emphasize the trainee names.
      • Changed the ILP Overview page to open plans in a separate browser tab.
      • Created a new how-to video for program administrators and advisors for ILP review and approval from the new ILP Overview page for when that goes live.

Other Features

• Search
  • Worked on an issue with indexing policy content into our proof of concept search engine.
• Transcripts
  • Continued work on a redesign of the data archival process, ensuring the main system and Transcripts Reporting Cube data retention rules are implemented as defined.
  • Worked on a fix for an issue where users that complete QI Foundations were not able to claim (a timing issue).
• My Account
  • Tested a fix for the Member Directory Preferences page being sometimes blank.
  • Finished the build estimate for allowing users to opt in/out specific office addresses to the Find a Pediatrician service.
• Auto Renewal
  • Continued building a way to allow users to sign up on aap.org for automatic renewals of memberships and subscriptions.
  • Continued building back end services to support online auto renewal.
• Additional Learning Opportunities
  • Launched the new AAP Learning page, with a link to it from the PediaLink home page.
    • This page provides links to educational sites/materials that may be available publicly or to the logged-in user.

October 14, 2024

Aap.org Content Changes

• Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health
  • Deployed fixes and changes for the Social Media Glossary including...
    • Increasing the size of the social media platform icons.
    • Making the “Topic” heading editable by administrators.
    • Modifying the definition pop-up behavior to make displaying and closing the definition pop-up box more intuitive.
    • Fixing the definition pop-up display when near the edge of certain screen sizes.
  • Evaluated new issues discovered with the glossary, including…
    
    • Images added into the glossary content area appear too small.
    • Missing the source/last updated content block area.
    • Definition pop-up not working as expected on touch screens in certain scenarios.

shopAAP Updates

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• Worked on a fix for when a message stating promo code not applied mistakenly appears when the promo code is successful (happens with certain types of promo codes).
• Resolved an issue with product feed updates.
• Started to estimate building donation at checkout.
• Finalized mockups for PDFs of membership proformas and the shopping cart to provide users a way to get a PDF they can get approval on prior to paying those proformas or for those shopping carts.
• Resolved an issue with product updates not propagating to the TEST site properly.
• Tested a new tool for troubleshooting user sessions.
• Completed an estimate for implementing an iframe to house a payment processor’s payment screen.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched September releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
• PediaLink Migration
  • Program Director Center
    • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) and PREP SA Reports.
  • Individualized Learning Plan
    • Worked on post go-live changes and fixes including…
      • Launched the fix for displaying their organization name in the heading area for Chief Residents.
      • Built a fix for the loading of the display for the main landing pages.
    • Program Administrator Overview Page
      • Updated the ILP Overview page design to emphasize the trainee names.
      • Changed the ILP Overview page to open plans in a separate browser tab.

Other Features

• Search
  • Worked on adding more meta tags to content and indexing that content into our proof of concept search engine.
• Transcripts
  • Continued work on a redesign of the data archival process, ensuring the main system and Transcripts Reporting Cube data retention rules are implemented as defined.
  • Designed a solution for an issue where users that complete QI Foundations were not able to claim (a timing issue).
• My Account
  • Revisited requirements for changes to the institutional access alert that appears in Library.
  • Built a fix for the Member Directory Preferences page being sometimes blank.
  • Continued working on a design concept for allowing users to opt in/out specific office addresses to the Find a Pediatrician service.
• Auto Renewal
  • Continued building a way to allow users to sign up on aap.org for automatic renewals of memberships and subscriptions.
  • Continued building back end services to support online auto renewal.
• Additional Learning Opportunities
  • Finalized a permanent solution for the directory to be used by a new page on features.aap.org that will provide links to educational sites/materials that may be available publicly or to the logged-in user.

September 30, 2024

Aap.org Content Changes

• Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health
  • Updated the content for the new Social Media Glossary in preparation for formal rollout. The glossary is a resource that provides information about social media platforms and available settings and tools for families to optimize children and teens' experiences online.
  • Deployed fixes and changes for the Social Media Glossary including...
    • Updating the definition pop-up to work better on various screen sizes.
    • Adding a way for administrators to control if the social media platform icons are grouped by category or not.
  • Worked on additional fixes for the glossary, such as…
    • Increasing the size of the social media platform icons.
    • Making the “Topic” heading editable by administrators.
    • Modifying the definition pop-up behavior to make displaying and closing the definition pop-up box more intuitive.
    • Fixing the definition pop-up display when near the edge of certain screen sizes.
• Launched the redesigned Join the AAP page, with the goal of simplifying the experience and making it easier for prospective members to learn about our memberships and apply to become a member.

shopAAP Updates

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• Launched the change to remove Author names from the You May Like, Related Items carousels to reduce the height of the carousels and improve the visual aesthetics of the product cards in the carousels.
• Finished design recommendations for a donation at checkout feature.
• Worked on mockups for PDFs of membership proformas and the shopping cart to provide users a way to get a PDF they can get approval on prior to paying those proformas or for those shopping carts.
• Investigated an issue with product updates not propagating to the TEST site properly.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched September releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
• PediaLink Migration
  • Launched a fix for the recommended courses placeholder block.
  • Program Director Center
    • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) and PREP SA Reports.
  • Individualized Learning Plan
    • Launched post go-live changes and fixes including…
      • Implementing retries when get failures that should not be occurring to prevent users from seeing a something went wrong error and having to try again when accessing the ILP site.
      • Updated copy on the ILP to replace the PRT acronym with Fellows in Training.
    • Program Administrator Review Page
      • Conducted initial testing of a new page for program administrators to view progress on learning plans for the entire program or their advisee list.
      • Launched the url structure and functionality that can directly take the admin from this page to view a particular trainee’s plan.

Other Features

• Search
  • Worked on adding more meta tags to content and indexing that content into our proof of concept search engine.
• Transcripts
  • Continued work on a redesign of the data archival process, ensuring the main system and Transcripts Reporting Cube data retention rules are implemented as defined.
• My Account
  • Analyzed why the Member Directory Preferences page is sometimes blank.
  • Started working on a design concept for allowing users to opt in/out specific office addresses to the Find a Pediatrician service.
• Auto Renewal
  • Began building a way to allow users to sign up on aap.org for automatic renewals of memberships and subscriptions.
  • Continued building back end services to support online auto renewal.
• Additional Learning Opportunities
  • Deployed the code to the live environment for a new page on features.aap.org that will provide links to educational sites/materials that may be available publicly or to the logged-in user. These are primarily educational activities that are not credit bearing, may be grant-funded, and do not need the level of functionality provided by our robust Learning Management System.

September 16, 2024

Aap.org Content Changes

• Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health
  • Launched a way to provide information about social media platforms and available settings and tools for families to optimize children and teens' experiences online.
  • Launched a way to show a popup text box by a word or phrase on a page when the user clicks on that word or phrase (way to give the user more info about a topic).
• Launched ways to add chat functionality to areas of aap.org.
• Worked on mockups for redesign of the Join the AAP page to simplify the experience and make it easier for prospective members to learn about our memberships and apply to become a member.

shopAAP Updates

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• Finished building the change to remove Author names from the You May Like, Related Items carousels to reduce the height of the carousels and improve the visual aesthetics of the product cards in the carousels.
• Started producing design recommendations for a donation at checkout feature.
• Worked on mockups for PDFs of membership proformas and the shopping cart to provide users a way to get a PDF they can get approval on prior to paying those proformas or for those shopping carts.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched August/September releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
  • Advanced PREP Statistics Self-Assessment
  • Fighting Racism to Advance Child Health Equity - Extension
• PediaLink Migration
  • Launched a fix for the recommended courses placeholder block.
  • Program Director Center
    • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) and PREP SA Reports.
  • Individualized Learning Plan
    • Started working on post go-live changes and fixes including…
      • Implementing retries when get failures that should not be occurring to prevent users from seeing a something went wrong error and having to try again when accessing the ILP site.
      • Updated copy on the ILP to replace the PRT acronym with Fellows in Training.
    • Program Administrator Review Page
      • Finished building a new page for program administrators to view progress on learning plans for the entire program or their advisee list.
      • Built a url structure and functionality that can directly take the admin from this page to view a particular trainee’s plan.

Other Features

• Search
  • Worked on adding more meta tags to content and indexing that content into our proof of concept search engine.
• Transcripts
  • Continued work on a redesign of the data archival process, ensuring the main system and Transcripts Reporting Cube data retention rules are implemented as defined.
• My Account
  • Launched fixes for how addresses are saved during the create account process and the save address process.
• Auto Renewal
  • Created the development estimate for allowing users to sign up on aap.org for automatic renewals of memberships and subscriptions.
  • Continued building back end services to support online auto renewal.
• Additional Learning Opportunities
  • Continued build of a new page on features.aap.org that will provide links to educational sites/materials that may be available publicly or to the logged-in user. Typically these are educational activities that are not credit bearing, may be grant-funded, and do not need the level of functionality provided by our robust Learning Management System.

September 2, 2024

Aap.org Content Changes

• Launched a minor version upgrade to the underlying aap.org Content Management System.
• Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health
  • Finished building a way to provide information about social media platforms and available settings and tools for families to optimize children and teens' experiences online.
  • Continued testing a way to show a popup text box by a word or phrase on a page when the user clicks on that word or phrase (way to give the user more info about a topic).
• Continued building ways to add chat functionality to areas of aap.org.
• Worked on mockups for redesign of the Join the AAP page to simplify the experience and make it easier for prospective members to learn about our memberships and apply to become a member.

shopAAP Updates

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• Launched changes and fixes on 9/11/24 including…
  • Changes to the credit type grid on product pages to account for our newest credit types such as Nursing Contact Hours.
  • Graying out the Checkout and Continue buttons upon first click to prevent unintended duplication of line items during checkout.
  • Fix to the mini-cart display of membership and subscription renewal line items.
  • Fix for the flow of items related to Series products out to the site pages.
• Started working on a change to remove Author names from the You May Like, Related Items carousels to reduce the height of the carousels and improve the visual aesthetics of the product cards in the carousels.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched August/September releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
  • 2024 Practical Pediatrics CME Course - San Diego, CA
  • Caring for American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Adolescents
• PediaLink Migration
  • Program Director Center
    • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) and PREP SA Reports.
    • Released a fix for the PREP SA Reports administrator pages that was not handling special characters in the administrator’s name.
  • Individualized Learning Plan
    • On August 28th, launched the third release, which includes…
      • Way for Residents, Fellows in Training, and Medical Students to be able to delete unapproved plans.
      • Ability for users to print plans.
      • Adding more information at the top of the plan such as the user’s Advisor, plan Submit date, and plan Approved date.
      • Way to allow users that are both administrators and trainees to be able to see plans in programs they administer and create their own learning plans.
      • Continued development on a new page for program administrators to view progress on learning plans for the entire program or their advisee list.

Other Features

• Search
  • Worked on adding more meta tags to content and indexing that content into our proof of concept search engine.
• Transcripts
  • Continued work on a redesign of the data archival process, ensuring the main system and Transcripts Reporting Cube data retention rules are implemented as defined.
• My Account
  • Finished testing fixes for how addresses are saved during the create account process and the save address process.
• Auto Renewal
  • Finalized user interface design concepts for allowing users to sign up on aap.org for automatic renewals of memberships and subscriptions.
  • Started building back end services to support online auto renewal.
• Additional Learning Opportunities
  • Continued build of a new page on features.aap.org that will provide links to educational sites/materials that may be available publicly or to the logged-in user. Typically these are educational activities that are not credit bearing, may be grant-funded, and do not need the level of functionality provided by our robust Learning Management System.

Other Features

• Search
  • During the AAP’s Leadership Conference, began sharing a proof of concept search page that uses technology being considered to replace the AAP Search software that is being phased out. The new tool supports more natural language-type search queries.
• Transcripts
  • Worked on redesign of the data archival process, ensuring the main system and Transcripts Reporting Cube data retention rules are implemented as defined.
• Auto Renewal
  • Created user interface design concepts for allowing users to sign up on aap.org for automatic renewals of memberships and subscriptions.
• Additional Learning Opportunities
  • Started design of a new page on features.aap.org that will provide links to educational sites/materials that may be available publicly or to the logged-in user. Typically these are educational activities that are not credit bearing, may be grant-funded, and do not need the level of functionality provided by our robust Learning Management System.

Other Features

• Search
  • As part of a proof of concept of a tool being considered as the replacement for the AAP Search software that is being phased out, worked on a search page that uses the aap.org design standards, provides a search box and chatbot that can search Redbook Online content. Focused on getting the results to include key information such as last updated date, labels, and icons.
  • Made a way for administrators to change the text that appears as the title and just above the search box in advance of launching a version of the page we can get feedback on.
• Transcripts
  • Worked on redesign of the data archival process, ensuring the main system and Transcripts Reporting Cube data retention rules are implemented as defined.

August 19, 2024

Aap.org Content Changes

• Added Opioid Pain Management as a topic under Patient Care…
  • https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/opioid-pain-management/
• Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health
  • Continued building out the concept of a way to provide information about social media platforms and available settings and tools for families to optimize children and teens' experiences online.
  • Finished build and started testing a way to show a popup text box by a word or phrase on a page when the user clicks on that word or phrase (way to give the user more info about a topic).
• Completed a dashboard that provides analytics about usage of online quizzes on aap.org (e.g., # of questions answered correctly / incorrectly). This will help identify areas of content to improve, promote, etc.
• Finished testing a minor version upgrade to the underlying aap.org Content Management System.
• Started building ways to add chat functionality to areas of aap.org.

shopAAP Updates

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• Continued testing changes and fixes including…
  • Changes to the credit type grid on product pages to account for our newest credit types such as Nursing Contact Hours.
  • Graying out the Checkout and Continue buttons upon first click to prevent unintended duplication of line items during checkout.
  • Fix to the mini-cart display of membership and subscription renewal line items.
  • Fix for the flow of items related to Series products out to the site pages.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched August releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
  • Practical Strategies for Implementing Trauma-Informed Care
  • 2024 Global Health Education Course – VIRTUAL ONLY
  • 2024 Global Health Education Course - ALL ACCESS (in-person)
• PediaLink Migration
  • Shut down access to the legacy PediaLink site now that all the features have been migrated to aap.org or features.aap.org.
  • Program Director Center
    • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) and PREP SA Reports.
  • Individualized Learning Plan
    • Launched the second release, which adds the ability for advisors and program administrators to comment on and approve learning plans on August 8th.
    • Started development on…
      • Way for Residents, Fellows in Training, and Medical Students to be able to delete unapproved plans.
      • Ability for users to print plans.
      • Adding more information at the top of the plan such as the user’s Advisor, plan Submit date, and plan Approved date.
      • Way to allow users that are both administrators and trainees to be able to see plans in programs they administer and create their own learning plans.
      • New page for program administrators to view progress on learning plans for the entire program or their advisee list.

July 22, 2024

Aap.org Content Changes

• Added new content including…
  • Topic Necrotizing Enterocolitis to Patient Care:
    
    • https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/necrotizing-enterocolitis-nec/
  • Interactive quiz about Measles as part of the Project Firstline campaign:
    • https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/infection-prevention-and-control/project-firstline/project-firstline-measles-quiz/
  • Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health
    • Planned the effort to build the concept of sharing information about social media platforms and available settings and tools for families to optimize children and teens' experiences online.
    • Continued evaluating direction to take for conversations starters project.

shopAAP Updates

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• On July 17th, launched the following changes and fixes…
  • Way to get discontinued products to drop out of the sitemap xml.
  • New fields needed to support the upgrade of the AAP’s association management system.
  • Prevent removal of mandatory sessions during one-day event registration.
  • Update to the shopAAP url on the order receipt footer.
• Worked on changes and fixes including…
  • Changes to the credit type grid on product pages to account for our newest credit types such as Nursing Contact Hours.
  • Graying out the Checkout and Continue buttons upon first click to prevent unintended duplication of line items during checkout.
  • Fix to the mini-cart display of membership and subscription renewal line items.
  • Fix for the flow of items related to Series products out to the site pages.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched July releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
  • 2024 CardioPREP: An Intensive Review and Update of Pediatric Cardiology – Virtual
  • Building a Foundation for Healthy Active Living
• PediaLink Home Page and Program Director Center
  • Supported the 11/15/23 launch of the new PediaLink home page on aap.org, which shows content tailored for the logged-in user including links to the legacy PediaLink site to access features such as Resident Learning Plans until those features are migrated.
  • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) that was migrated to aap.org 3/6/24.
  • Deployed post go-live fixes to the PREP SA Reports Individual, Program, and Overview pages on aap.org, under the PediaLink area.
  • Finished final testing and launch prep for the first release of the new Individualized Learning Plan to be used in the coming academic year.

June 24, 2024

Aap.org Content Migration

• Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health
  • Based on feedback from experts, updated the design concept for sharing information about social media platforms and available settings and tools for families to optimize children and teens' experiences online. Began estimating the work to build it.
  • Began discovery on ways to implement an interactive experience with questions/prompts to help families have conversations about technology & digital media use.
  • Evaluated work involved in building a definition pop-up feature for text strings on pages.
• Investigated an issue with adding hyperlinked aap.org email addresses to certain content placeholder types.
  • Finished build of the data layer for additional analytics tracking on quizzes to be able to aggregate data by question on number of times answered incorrectly, etc.

shopAAP Migration

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• Worked on changes and fixes including…
  • Removing discontinued products from the sitemap that google consumes.
  • Update to the application interface connection mechanism utilized by the rich product information system in communicating with the shopAAP area of aap.org.
• Tested an update for the shopAAP url to the order receipt footer.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched June releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
  • 2024 Best Practices for Active Teaching and Learning Webinar
  • 2024 Practical Pediatrics CME Course - Williamsburg, VA
  • Medication Administration in Early Care and Education Settings - 2024
  • Partnering Effectively for Chronic Condition Management in Schools
• PediaLink Home Page and Program Director Center
  • Supported the 11/15/23 launch of the new PediaLink home page on aap.org, which shows content tailored for the logged-in user including links to the legacy PediaLink site to access features such as Resident Learning Plans until those features are migrated.
  • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) that was migrated to aap.org 3/6/24.
  • Continued building the first release of the new Individualized Learning Plan to be used in the coming academic year.
• PREP Self-Assessment Reports
  • Launched the Individual, Program, and Overview pages on aap.org, under the PediaLink area.
  • Updated the PediaLink home page and My Account hub page to provide Residents and Residency Program administrators a way of navigating to the new PREP SA Reports pages.
  • Started working on and testing post go-live minor display fixes.

Other Features

• Search
  • As part of a proof of concept of a tool being considered as the replacement for the AAP Search software that is being phased out, worked on a search page that uses the aap.org design standards, provides a search box and chatbot that can search Redbook Online content. Focused on getting the results to include key information such as last updated date, labels, and icons.
• Transcripts
  • Worked on redesign of the data archival process, ensuring the main system and Transcripts Reporting Cube data retention rules are implemented as defined.

June 10, 2024

Aap.org Content Migration

• Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health
  • Launched a new page about relevant AAP-hosted podcasts, at: https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/media-and-children/center-of-excellence-on-social-media-and-youth-mental-health/aap-podcasts-on-social-media-and-youth-mental-health/.
  • Gathered insightful feedback from experts on a design concept for sharing information about social media platforms and available settings and tools for families to optimize children and teens' experiences online.
• Deployed the fix for an issue with propagating content changes to all relevant servers.
• Started build of additional analytics tracking on quizzes to be able to aggregate data by question on number of times answered incorrectly, etc.
• Released some improvements to the Tobacco Cessation web app, including caching of documents and PDF links.

shopAAP Migration

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• Launched the following fixes and changes…
  • Fix for breadcrumb links on product pages to ensure they yield correct category-based search results.
  • Fix to prevent error when registering for events. This was related to a new field added to allow the Learning Management System to correctly recognize events that have both live and virtual formats.
  • Change to one day registration to ensure mandatory sessions cannot be removed.
• Worked on a change to add a new field in the event registration object that was introduced by the latest service pack for the AAP’s Association Management System.
• Investigated solutions for…
  • Removing discontinued products from the sitemap that google consumes.
  • Updating product detail pages with new credit types.
  • Fixing a display issue with membership and subscription renewal in the mini-cart.
  • How to get product detail page links to appear on landing pages that automatically pull in tagged content from aap.org.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched June releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
• PediaLink Home Page and Program Director Center
  • Supported the 11/15/23 launch of the new PediaLink home page on aap.org, which shows content tailored for the logged-in user including links to the legacy PediaLink site to access features such as Resident Learning Plans until those features are migrated.
  • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) that was migrated to aap.org 3/6/24.
  • Continued building the first release of the new Individualized Learning Plan to be used in the coming academic year.
• PREP Self-Assessment Reports
  • Finished testing the Individual and Program reports.
  • Worked on bug fixes found from testing.
  • Prepared the content pages in the live environment for a planned launch on 6/12.
• Live Events Hosted on LMS
  • Launched the fix to the front end event registration flow that was caused by a change to support user access on the LMS for events that have both a live and virtual format.

Other Features

• Search
  • As part of a proof of concept of a tool being considered as the replacement for the AAP Search software that is being phased out, worked on a search page that uses the aap.org design standards, provides a search box and chatbot that can search Redbook Online content. Focused on getting the results to include key information such as last updated date, labels, and icons.

May 13, 2024

Aap.org Content Migration

• Added topic Measles to Patient Care…
  • https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/measles/
• Revised the user interface design for the Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health project to provide a centralized location for information about social media platforms and available settings and tools for families to optimize children and teens' experiences online.
• Worked on a fix for an issue with propagating content changes to all relevant servers.

shopAAP Migration

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• Worked on the following fixes and changes…
  • Tested the fix for breadcrumb links on product pages to ensure they yield correct category-based search results.
  • Fixes for the checkout flow after applying the newest version update of AAP’s Association Management System software to the DEV environment.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched May releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
  • 2024 Practical Care of the Adolescent and Young Adult Course
  • 2024 Practical Pediatrics CME Course - Hilton Head Island, SC
• PediaLink Home Page and Program Director Center
  • Supported the 11/15/23 launch of the new PediaLink home page on aap.org, which shows content tailored for the logged-in user including links to the legacy PediaLink site to access features such as Resident Learning Plans until those features are migrated.
  • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) that was migrated to aap.org 3/6/24.
  • Started building the first release of the new Individualized Learning Plan to be used in the coming academic year.
• PREP Self-Assessment Reports
  • Finished building the front end user interface to display, print, and export to CSV the assessment summary data for 2022, 2023, and 2024 PREP Self-Assessments for residency programs.
  • Continued testing of the reports.
  • Worked on bug fixes found from testing.
• Live Events Hosted on LMS
  • Worked on a fix to the front end event registration flow that was caused by a change to support user access on the LMS for events that have both a live and virtual format.

Other Features

• Search
  • As part of a proof of concept of a tool being considered as the replacement for the AAP Search software that is being phased out, worked on a search page that uses the aap.org design standards, provides a search box and chatbot that can search Redbook Online content.
• Transcripts
  • Worked with staff to agree to the rules of the data archival process for transcripts data for how much history should be in the live system, in the reporting cube, and deleted.

May 13, 2024

Aap.org Content Migration

• Created a user interface design for the Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health project to provide a centralized location for information about social media platforms and available settings and tools for families to optimize children and teens' experiences online.
• Worked with areas looking to make a significant refresh to their content, including...
  • Membership join page and AAP sections / councils areas of Community in ways that make them simpler to navigate (more topic-based than group-name based)
  • Tobacco Control and Prevention

shopAAP Migration

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• Launched a fix for a particular product where the credit amount was showing incorrectly on the site.
• Corrected an issue with product recommendations missing from ‘You also may like’ carousels on the site.
• Worked on the following fixes and changes…
  • Fix for breadcrumb links on product pages to ensure they yield correct category-based search results.
  • Troubleshooting the checkout flow after applying the newest version update of AAP’s Association Management System software to the DEV environment.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched April/May releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
  • Basic PREP Statistics Self-Assessment
• PediaLink Home Page and Program Director Center
  • Supported the 11/15/23 launch of the new PediaLink home page on aap.org, which shows content tailored for the logged-in user including links to the legacy PediaLink site to access features such as Resident Learning Plans until those features are migrated.
  • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) that was migrated to aap.org 3/6/24.
• PREP Self-Assessment Reports
  • Finished building the back end services needed to send report data to the user interface for display to the user.
  • Continued building the front end user interface to display, print, and export to CSV the assessment summary data for 2022, 2023, and 2024 PREP Self-Assessments for residency programs.
  • Began technical testing of the reports.
  • Worked on bug fixes found from initial technical testing.
• Live Events Hosted on LMS
  • Worked on a change to support user access on the LMS for events that have both a live and virtual format.

Other Features

• Search
  • As part of a proof of concept of a tool being considered as the replacement for the AAP Search software that is being phased out, worked on a search page that uses the aap.org design standards, provides a search box and chatbot that can search Redbook Online content.
• Transcripts
  • Analyzed the data archival process for transcripts data for how much history should be in the live system, in the reporting cube, and deleted.

April 15, 2024

Aap.org Content Migration

• Continued requirements gathering, creating possible user flows for the Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health to create a centralized location for information about social media platforms and available settings and tools for families to optimize children and teens' experiences online.
• Worked on mockups for organizing the membership join page and AAP sections / councils areas of Community in ways that make them simpler to navigate (more topic-based than group-name based).

shopAAP Migration

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• Launched the following changes and fixes…
  • Change to support One-Day registration for the National Conference & Exhibition.
  • Fix to the recommended courses content placeholder to filter out discontinued products.
  • Fix for pushing package item links properly to the product pages on the site when a package is activated.
  • Fix for ensuring faceted search links used on shopAAP pages give the user a correct search results page instead of blank results.
• Worked on a fix for a particular product where the credit amount was showing incorrectly on the site.
• Reviewed and reprioritized features and issues to be worked on in the future.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched April releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
  • 2024 Diagnosis and Treatment of Common Pediatric Mental Health Disorders - Virtual
• PediaLink Home Page
  • Supported the 11/15/23 launch of the new PediaLink home page on aap.org, which shows content tailored for the logged-in user including links to the legacy PediaLink site to access features such as Resident Learning Plans until those features are migrated.
  • Continued working on a content area that will show online course recommendations to logged in users, testing the removal of discontinued products.
• Program Director Center
  • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) that was migrated to aap.org 3/6/24.
  • Continued training program coordinators to use this new page.
  • Worked on changes to ensure roster upload notification emails to program coordinators correctly list which trainee records were not uploaded in situations where some unexpected characters were in the trainee record in the upload file (e.g., non-breaking space). Also updated the logic to reduce the chances of error by stripping off those types of characters from the beginning/end of those fields.
• PREP Self-Assessment Reports
  • Continued building the back end services needed to send report data to the user interface for display to the user.
  • Continued building the front end user interface to display, print, and export to CSV the assessment summary data for 2022, 2023, and 2024 PREP Self-Assessments for residency programs.

Other Features

• Search
  • Launched change to the back end Content Management System that allows staff to mark pages/folders to be kept out of the search index and have that setting cascade down to all pages/folders underneath.
  • Launched a change for URLs that go to pre-filtered AAP Search results.
  • Tested a way for administrators to manually delete pages from the AAP Search index.
• Login
  • Worked on a fix to correspondingly update the user login name field when the user changes primary email and synchs with the authorization system.

April 15, 2024

Aap.org Content Migration

• Began requirements gathering for the Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health to create a centralized location for information about social media platforms and available settings and tools for families to optimize children and teens' experiences online.

shopAAP Migration

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• Validated a fix to the TEST environment on the recommended courses content placeholder to filter out discontinued products.
• Reviewed and reprioritized features and issues to be worked on in the future.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched April releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
• PediaLink Home Page
  • Supported the 11/15/23 launch of the new PediaLink home page on aap.org, which shows content tailored for the logged-in user including links to the legacy PediaLink site to access features such as Resident Learning Plans until those features are migrated.
  • Continued working on a content area that will show online course recommendations to logged in users, testing the removal of discontinued products.
• Program Director Center
  • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) that was migrated to aap.org 3/6/24.
  • Continued training program coordinators to use this new page.
• PREP Self-Assessment Reports
  • Continued building the back end services needed to send report data to the user interface for display to the user.
  • Started building the front end user interface to display, print, and export to CSV the assessment summary data for 2022, 2023, and 2024 PREP Self-Assessments for residency programs.

Other Features

• Search
  • Built a way for administrators to manually delete pages from the AAP Search index.
  • Continued analysis of how to improve the look, features, and results of search as the next step in a timeboxed proof of concept evaluation of search engine tools that could be used on aap.org in the future.

April 1, 2024

Aap.org Content Migration

• In the Patient Care area within the topic National Center for a System of Services for Children and Youth with Special Care Needs, added a downloadable one-pager highlighting the goal, services, and summary of the Blueprint for Change.
• Tested a fix for URLs that go to pre-filtered AAP Search results.
• Completed testing of a change to cascade the indexing settings of folders and pages to pages and folders added underneath.

shopAAP Migration

• After the 8/8/23 launch of the new shopAAP at https://www.aap.org/en/shopaap, continued providing post go-live support.
• Fixed an issue where package item links were not flowing on to the package product detail pages automatically.
• Added a fix to the TEST environment on the recommended courses content placeholder to filter out discontinued products.
• Worked on and tested a fix for URLs that go to pre-filtered AAP Search results for shopAAP topics.
• Built and tested a change to how the date and sessions are chosen and stored as part of the event registration flow for the 2024 National Conference & Exhibition for one-day passes.

Learning Management System and PediaLink Transformation

• Launched March releases on the new LMS including…
  • 2024 PREP Subspecialty Monthly Issues
  • 2024 Practical Pediatrics CME Course - Orlando – Disney
  • 2024 Workshop on Neonatal-Perinatal Practice Strategies - Scottsdale, AZ
• PediaLink Home Page
  • Supported the 11/15/23 launch of the new PediaLink home page on aap.org, which shows content tailored for the logged-in user including links to the legacy PediaLink site to access features such as Resident Learning Plans until those features are migrated.
  • Continued working on a content area that will show online course recommendations to logged in users, removing discontinued products.
• Program Director Center
  • Provided post go-live support for roster administration (Advisor/Admin Assignment, Request Invoice, Manage Admins) that was migrated to aap.org 3/6/24.
  • Continued training program coordinators to use this new page.
• PREP Self-Assessment Reports
  • Finished the data import/update process that pulls PREP Self-Assessment progress data for PREP SA 2024 from the new LMS and the legacy PediaLink system for earlier PREP SA years.
  • Continued building the back end services needed to send report data to the user interface for display to the user.
  • Evaluated the technical details for building the front end user interface and how to leverage the back end services to get the data and be able to export CSV files of the assessment summary data.

Other Features

• Search
  • Tested the change to the back end Content Management System that will allow staff to mark pages/folders to be kept out of the search index, and have that setting cascade down to all pages/folders underneath.
  • Began analysis of how to improve the look, features, and results of search as the next step in a timeboxed proof of concept evaluation of search engine tools that could be used on aap.org in the future.